Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates